Summary: Theseus/Reader, Reader’s a werewolf under Newts care, Theseus mistakes her for a new assistant
“Newt! Tina said you were down here. Oh, hello; is Newt in?” You startle at the tall wizard standing in the doorway.
“No sir; he’s out with the Kelpie; it needed to go for a run; well a swim I guess since it exists in the water. It’s a pleasure to meet one of Newt's friends.” You smile, holding out your hand for him to shake.
“Friend?” he questions and you nod.
“Newt put up a protection spell on the case; to make sure only friends could come in. Well those he considers friends; an added layer of safety.” He takes your hand and smiles.
“Theseus. It’s a pleasure.”
“Y/N; the pleasure is mine. Would you like to wait for him to get back? It shouldn’t take more than a few minutes more; he left almost an hour ago.” Theseus nods and sits on the workbench while you finish feeding the nifflers.
“Would you like tea while we’re waiting?” He shakes his head.
“So what do you do that caused you to meet Newt?”
“I work for the ministry of magic.” You jump back surprised.
“Oh do you know Tina then? She works for the MCUSA in New York.”
“No I met Tina through Newt. We went to Hogwarts together.”
“Oh wow; I did to; I was in the year behind Newt but we were both in hufflepuff; what about you?”
“Gryffindor. A year above Newt.”
“Well that’s a nice change from the usual gryffindor background; being an Auror and all. You get put on a lot of dangerous missions?” You half joke and he grins a little.
“Mostly now it’s just paperwork. Most of the danger is things Newt’s dragged me into.” You laugh nodding.
“I can understand that.” You grin and he smiles back as you ask more about his job and the specific department he works in; you’re a little surprised to hear he manages a small team. Even more surprised to hear he was involved in the war and was considered a war hero when he made it home. You learned that his mother bred Hippogriff’s as well; you wonder if that’s maybe how he and Newt met.
“I’ll come back next week; if that’s alright.” He grins and you nod back to him watching as he leaves.
Newt reappears almost instantly and you realize he was hiding.
“For now; he said he’ll be back next week; some sort of ministry case.”
Theseus returns later in the day Newt once again vanishing to leave you with him. Not that you mind, you find yourself developing a small crush on him that you can only feel getting bigger as the hours go by.
“What do you need help with, maybe I could help; if you need Newt?” You tilt your head and smile.
“Well I needed him to look over some pawprints we found.” He gestures to the stack of files he has floating behind him.
“Oh I can see if I know anything; I’m good with prints.” He nods offering you the images and you leaf through them, nerves growing.
“It’s some sort of canine; a few of the ministry in the magical creatures department think it’s a werewolf; but a werewolf wouldn’t be so close to the city without more death.”
“More death?” You question and he nods.
“All we’ve been able to find nearby the prints have been the occasional dead rabbit. If it is a werewolf it would be attacking humans.”
“Hm; well maybe it’s a grim? Or just a young werewolf? And it can’t attack humans yet because it’s too small?”
“Possibly; do those prints match with a young werewolf?” He learns forward slightly over your shoulder and you’re about to turn back to him when you hear Newt coming down the stairs.
“Theseus; what are you doing here?” He pretends to sound surprised, you know he was hoping Theseus was gone.
“I stopped by the ministry is dealing with what we think is a werewolf; I was asking your assistant her opinion.”
“My assistant; oh yes Y/N.” He offers a smile and you nod, mouthing thank you.
“Well she suggested it might be a juvenile; or some other canine creature.”
“Hmm the prints mark it as a werewolf; but the size doesn’t match up with a young one; maybe a smaller werewolf but not as young as you’re thinking. It might just not be hungry? Most werewolves attack out of hunger; the transformation takes most of their energy.” Newt nods and Thesues nods along with him.
“So we just need to capture it; so we can bring it somewhere else.”
“Theseus it’s a person; if it’s a werewolf; you can’t just relocate it so it won't attack humans.”
“It’s the only option besides well you know killing it.” Theseus sighs running his hands through his hair.
“Theseus; just think about-“
“It’s not my choice Newt. You know that. If we can find it before the ministry does it might be easier to convince them to move; or just live with you or something; Hell move them in with mom and dad for all I care; then it can spend its days chasing hippogriffs. Merlin Newt I don’t have all the answers.” Theseus huffs gesturing with his arms.
“I know Theseus. Thank you for letting me know.”
“I’ll be checking in later in the week as well. Full moon will give us more answers hopefully.” He nods and starts ascending the stairs you and Newt follow him watching as Newt magics over the kettle and cups.
“Theseus you should stay for tea.”
“That would be wonderful but I have to get back to work.”
“Stay.” Newt hums offering him out a cup from the set floating over the table.
“You’re lucky I still have time for lunch.” He sits across from you and you pull a mug over. You let Newt make your tea and can see Theseus frown as he sets it in front of you.
“So what were you two talking about when I missed you? Or was it more about the prints.”
“I was just telling Y/N about my job.”
“Is that why she looks so tired then?” Newt jokes and you chuckle.
“Well I’m sorry I’m not able to keep up with you two and your magical creature talk.”
“You know plenty about Hippogriffs; you can talk her ear off about those; she’s never met one before.”
“I’m sure you’ve explained everything there is to know about them. It’s the entire reason you became so fond of magical creatures after all. Although I don’t think mother was too excited when you brought home that murtlap from the beach.” You laugh and smile content to listen to Theseus tell stories about him and Newt growing up.
“Y/N, you feeling okay?” You blink sluggishly and nod.
“Sorry just tired from the other day.” You shrug a little and grimace at the thought of having to do everything over tonight.
“Are you sure the environment will hold me?” You ask as Newt shows you the forested area that’s devoid of any creatures.
“None of the creatures will be in danger either.” He assures his hand on your shoulder.
“Thank you for this. If I stay here; do you think the ministry will leave me alone?”
“They should; it would help to tell Theseus; he could say I’ve given evidence that the werewolf has moved back to the forest or something.”
“Newt you can’t tell him. At least not yet; it might sort itself out anyways.” You cringe at the thought of Theseus seeing you as the beast you are.
“Okay we’ll give it another week; it’ll give them time to use tracking spells if they decide to go that far.” You sigh in relief.
You wake up vision blurry and your head still spinning, you glance to the pile of folded clothes and slowly pull them on; as you sit and eventually stand up you can hear Newt talking upstairs out of the case. You make your way up peering around as you see Theseus sitting talking.
“Morning Y/N.” Newt grins and you smile at him taking the cup of tea Theseus offers out.
“Hold on.” You freeze as his hand brushes some grass from your hair.
“Were the mooncalves dancing last night?” You nod at Theseus’ question and he grins back. He tucks some hair behind your ear as you sit next to him.
“We used a couple of tracking spells and followed them into the forest nearby; it seems like the creature has vanished into there; if we see any traces of it tonight we’ll go after it but if we don’t the ministry has agreed to leave it alone for now.” He sighs, pulling over a biscuit.
You should stay; we haven’t seen you in a while. It would be nice to catch up while we’re here for a visit.” Queenie appears with the tea set floating behind her.
“Oh Y/N; you’re awake how’re you feeling?” Thesues turns slightly to look at you and Queenie smiles at Newt who looks slightly panicked.
“She fell into the Kelpie’s home earlier.” Tina supplies and you laugh a little.
“Yeah; I just had to sleep it off.”
“Sleep off what almost drowning?” You chew your lip at his scolding and shrug a little.
“It’s fine; I only got a couple of scrapes from the wall of the enclosure.” His frown increases.
“They’re almost healed anyways.”
“You got hurt? And Newt expected you to work after that!” Thesues scolds and Newt shakes his head.
“I asked to work; Newt is the one who sent me to rest.”
“They’re nothing; I swear.”You try to appease him and sigh rolling up your sleeve showing one of the oldest cuts from your transformation last night. He glares at you and Newt before his wand waves something forward and he nudges you to sit on the seat he’s now vacated.
“Honestly you need to take better care of yourself love; this could become infected or upset the other creatures. No idea what you were thinking.” Theseus clicks his tongue and you hang your head.
“You can’t go running around that case and expect all of them not to react you to being injured; you’re not one of them.” Newt offers you a sly grin and you shake your head. Theseus nudging your arm back to where it was resting on his leg. You hadn’t noticed he’d been steadily cleaning more and more of the cuts.
“So you’re one of them then? Did Newt find some sort of shapeshifting creature that took your form? Or maybe you’re some sort of veela hybrid?” Theseus looks to Newt before his face turns pink.
“So the first idea is a Veela; not what you’ve been chasing for the past three months?”
“Newt. If you’re telling me Y/N is the werewolf I was talking about having to kill.”
“I’m suggesting; not telling.” Newt smirks and Theseus scowls.
“At least you’re not charming me.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Veela’s can use enchantment charms.” Newt supplies and you nod.
“I know that; I don’t understand why Theseus thinks I would be charming him with said charms I can’t use because I’m apparently part veela now.” You laugh a little and Theseus scowls sinking in the chair you’ve returned to him; before you’d pulled over your own stool.
“No it has to be something if you’re embarrassed by it.”
“I’m not embarrassed by it.”
“You’re not embarrassed by crushing on a werewolf?”
“Newt.” Theseus glares at him and Newt rolls his eyes.
“I could be more vulgar about it. If you want.”
“You could just not say anything while Y/N is sitting right there.” He gestures towards you and you wave and Newt grins.
“Why do you think I said it?”
“You’re my older brother; when am I going to get a chance to tease you about this; think about it this way; at least it’s not me telling this to our parents; or at your wedding.”
“We went from hinting at a crush to a wedding now?” Theseus sighs looking up to the ceiling.
“She hasn’t even met our parents yet Newt merlin’s sake.”
“Thee you haven’t even asked her out yet.” Newt adds and you try not to laugh when his face drains of colour only to be replaced by an almost pure red.
